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Programme

MONDAY 28

 

8:45 – 9:40 – REGISTRATION

9:45 – 10:09 – OPENING REMARKS:

 

Sónia Gabriel - Archaeosciences Laboratory (LARC)

Luís Aires-Barros - President of the Lisbon Geographic Society (SGL)

Ana Cristina Martins - Lisbon Geographic Society (SGL), President of the Section of Archaeology

Nuno Vassalo e Silva - Director of the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage (DGPC)

Ana Cristina Araújo - Coordinator of the Archaeosciences Laboratory (LARC)

Nuno Ferrand de Almeida - Director of CIBIO-InBIO

 

 

SESSION 1. Taxonomy and molecular analysis

Chair:  LEMBI LÕUGAS

 

10:10 – 10:29 - JONES A.K.G.J., Widening the net. New approaches to the analysis of fish remains from archaeological sites: identifying the unidentifiable

 

10:30 – 10:49 - ZIVALJEVIĆ I., Revealing an extirpated species: identification of cyprinid pharyngeal teeth from the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges

 

10:50 – 11:29 coffee break

 

 

 

SESSION 2. COST- Oceans Past Platform (OPP)

Chair:  ELIZABETH REITZ

 

11:30 – 11:39 - Paul HOLM, COSTOPP Project presentation

 

12:00 – 12:19 - BARRETT J.H., ORTON D.C., HAMILTON-DYER S., CULLING M., HÄNFLING B., HANDLEY L., O’CONNELL T.S., RICHARDS M.P. and HUTCHINSON W.F. The globalization of naval provisioning: stable isotope and aDNA analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545

 

12:20 – 12:39 - HARLAND J., From the fish middens to the herring: Archaeological and historical evidence for later medieval and early modern fishing in the Northern Isles, Scotland

 

12:40 – 13:49 lunch

 

13:50 – 14:09 - LÕUGAS L. Long and short distance fish trade during the Middle Ages in the eastern Baltic region

 

14:10 – 14:29 - MAKOWIEKI D. Fish fauna in Kołobrzeg and Gdańsk between 9th and 15th century: Reasons for diversity and changes

 

 14:30 – 14:49 - RANNAMÄE E. and LÕUGAS L. Fish consumption and assertion of trade with coastal regions in medieval Karksi and Viljandi, Estonia

 

14:50 – 15:09 - MYLONA D. Fishing and fish eating in southern Aegean through time. Fishing traditions and innovations

 

15:10 – 15:29 - ROSELLÓ-IZQUIERDO E., GONZÁLEZ-GÓMEZ E.A., FERNÁNDEZ-RODRÍGUEZ C., MORALES-MUÑIZ A. The Iberian medieval fisheries: a search for origins

 

15:30 – 16:19 coffee break

 

 

 

SESSION 3. Roman fisheries, and fish products

Chair:  WIM VAN NEER

 

16:20 – 16:39 - DUTTING M. Fish and fishing in the northern part of the Roman Empire: the evidence from the Netherlands

 

16:40 – 16:59 - GRAINGER S., Roman fish sauces: amphorae shape, fish sauce residues and the practicalities of supply

 

17:00 – 17:19 - NICHOLSON R. More sauce from the Thames:  fish and fishing in and around the Thames estuary, England

 

17:20 – 17:39 - THEODOROPOULOU T., and SÁEZ-ROMERO A.M. From beyond the Pillars of Herakles to the East: a fresh look at the remains of salted fish and transport amphorae from the Punic Amphora Building at Corinth

 

17:40 – 17:59 - PIQUÈS G., TILLIER M., DJAOUI D., SANCHEZ C. Sauces and salted-fish for sailors: palaeocontent analysis of jars from the ports of Gallia Narbonensis

 

18:00 – 18:19 - BERNAL-CASASOLA D., MARLASCA R., EXPÓSITO-ÁLVAREZ J.A., RODRIGUEZ J.J.D. Roman Tuna fish and Garum from Baelo Claudia. Recent archaeozoological evidence

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY 29

 

SESSION 4. Fish, ritual, feasting, and social status

Chair:  PHILIPPE BÉAREZ

 

9:30 – 9:49 - VAN NEER W. A Greco-Roman votive deposit of fish at Oxyrhynchus (Al Bahnasa, Egypt)

 

9:50 – 10:09 - JONES S. and LANDON W. Fishing, feasting and friendship; a cross cultural comparison of fish rituals in maritime contexts (c. 1500-1900)

 

10:10 – 10:29 - REITZ E. Charleston, South Carolina (USA): A case study of fish as evidence of social status and environmental impact

 

10:30 – 10:49 - LERNAU O. Fish consumption in the Beit Shean Valley as studied in two major excavations: Tel Beth Shean and Tel Rehov

 

10:50 – 11:29 coffee break

 

 

 

SESSION 5. Morphometry and osteometry

Chair:  REBECCA NICHOLSON

 

11:30 – 11:49 - SAMPER-CARRO S. LOUYS J., HAWKINS S. and O'CONNOR S. A geometric morphometric approach to shape variation in fish vertebrae for taxonomic and habitat identification

 

11:50 – 12:09 - MARTÍNEZ-POLANCO M.F., JIMENÉZ M. and COOKE R. Estimating body length of two puffer-fish species (Diodon) to predict the size of archaeological individuals from two sites of different ages and palaeohabitats in the Pearl Island Archipelago, Panama

 

 

 

SESSION 6. Fish as palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental proxies – Isotopic data

Chair:  JAMES BARRETT

 

12:10 – 12:29- DUFOUR E., JOUSSE H., and SERENO P. Isotopic sclerochronology provides insight into fishing seasonality in a palaeo-lake at Gobero (Niger) during the mid-Holocene

 

 12:30 – 12:49 - HÄBERLE S., SCHIBLER J. and PLOGMANN H.H. Stable Isotope ratios of archaeological and modern fish bone collagen reflect interactions between men, fish and aquatic ecosystems

 

12:50 – 13:59 lunch

 

 

 

SESSION 7. Fishing cultures of the World: environmental and human impact on fish resources

S.7 (1). South America and Caribe

Chair:  VIRGINIA BUTLER

 

14:00 – 14:19 - BÉAREZ P., GEOPFERT N. and CHRISTOL A. Bayovar 1: A pre-Hispanic fish-processing camp in the Sechura Desert, Northern Peru

 

14:20 – 14:39 - BORGES C. and GROUARD S. Tracking fish and fishing practices over time in sambaquis of the Santos estuarine complex, southeastern Brazil (4900 – 1900 years BP)

 

 

SESSION 7. Fishing cultures of the World: environmental and human impact on fish resources

S.7 (2). North America, Alaska and Asia

Chair:  RICHARD HOFFMANN

 

14:40 – 14:59 - BUTLER V. The effects of mega-earthquakes on northeast Pacific fish populations over the past 2000 years

 

 15:00 – 15:19 - KRYLOVICH O. Decline of Rock greenlings from Adak Island (Aleutian Islands, Alaska)

 

15:20 – 15:39 - ZHANG Y., FULLER D., QIN L. and MARTIN L. The Rice-fish Economy: wetland fishing and rice cultivation in the Neolithic of the lower Yangtze River region, China

 

16:00 – 16:49 coffee break

 

 

SESSION 7. Fishing cultures of the World: environmental and human impact on fish resources

S.7 (3). Europe

Chair:  DANIEL MAKOWIEKI

 

16:30 – 16:49 - NURMINEN K. Burbot (Lota lota) and winter fishing in Finland during the Stone Age

 

16:50 – 17:09 - ROBSON H. and ANDERSEN S.H. Eel fishing in the Mariager Fjord during the Ertebølle and Funnel Beaker cultures: new archaeo-ichthyological data from the kitchen midden at Thygeslund

 

17:10 – 17:29 - RITCHIE K. The Chalcolithic fishery at Pietrele, Romania described from fish and fishing technology remains

 

17:30 – 17:49 - ROSELLÓ-IZQUIERDO E., ROS-SALA M.M., LÓPEZ-PADILLA J.A. and MORALES-MUÑIZ A. Fishing in the Iberian Bronze Age: The fishes from the Cabezo Pardo and Cerro De Los Gavilanes

 

17:50 – 18:09 - BLANCO A. and AGUSTÍ J. Fish remains from the Neolithic site of El Mirador (Atapuerca, Spain): seasonality and resource management

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 30

 

SESSION 8. Natural deposits vs. fishing, fish processing and consumption evidence

Chair:  ARTURO MORALES

 

9:30 – 9:49 - BARTOSIEWICZ L., GALIK A. and GÁBOR I. Troubled Waters: Fish remains from Ménfőcsanak–Széles-földek, Hungary

 

9:50 – 10:09 - CARENTI G. Garbage into the well: exploitation of fish in two different historical phases of Sant'Antioco (SW Sardinia, Italy)

 

10:10 – 10:29 - YEOMANS L. A pit full of fish: fishing and fish storage at the Late Islamic settlement of Freiha, Qatar

 

10:30 – 10:49 - WOUTERS W. Fishing and eating plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) from Roman to modern times in Belgium

 

10:50 – 11:19 coffee break

 

 

 

SESSION 9. Multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of fish remains: Archaeology, written and illustrated sources

Chair:  HEIDE H. PLOGMANN

 

11:20 – 11:39 - HOFFMAN R. What can be learned from the fisheries regulations of late medieval Europe?

 

11:40 – 11:59 - KÜCHELMANN C. Hanseatic trade in the North Atlantic: the archaeozoological evidence

 

12:00 – 12:19 - REYNOLDS R. The nature of Anglo-Saxon fishing and fish consumption: A Multi-disciplinary approach to the study of fish remains

 

12:10 – 12:49 - DeFRANCE S. Fishing and fish consumption in the colonial lower Mississippi valley: fish remains from European colonial and early American sites in the historic New Orleans French quarter

 

12:30 – 12:49 - FRADKIN A. Fish illustrations of colonial America by artist-naturalist Mark Catesby and the ichthyo-archaeological record

 

12:50 – 14:00 lunch

 

 

 

SESSION 10. Poster Session

S.10 (1) COST- Oceans Past Platform (OPP)

Chair:  SÓNIA GABRIEL

 

 

14:10 – 14:29 - ROBSON H. A reappraisal of eel fishing: new analysis on archaeological remains

 

14:30 – 14:39 - MARTYN R., ORTON D., ROBERTS C., WOLFF G.A. and CRAIG O. In cod we trust: determining long-term changes to North Sea ecosystems through δ15N analysis of single amino acids from historic fish bone

 

 

SESSION 10. Poster Session

S.10 (2) Taxonomy, molecular analysis, palaeoenvironmental data, osteometry and morfometry

Chair: KENNETH RITCHIE

 

14:40 – 14:49 - THIEREN E., ERVYNCK A., BRINKHUIZEN D., LOCKER A. and VAN NEER W. The Holocene occurrence of sturgeon in the southern North Sea

 

14:50 – 14:59 - BORGES C. and DUFOUR E. When this fish was fished? Otolith sclerochronology in a Brazilian sambaqui

 

15:00 – 15:09 - ROYLE T., NICHOLAS G.P. and YANG D.Y. Ancient DNA analysis of Late Period (3500 to 200 cal. years BP) archaeological fish remains from the Interior Plateau region of British Columbia, Canada

 

15:10 – 15:19 – GALIMOVA D., ASKEYEV I.V., ASKEYEV O.V., POPOVIĆ D.and PANAGIOTOPOULOU H. The study of fish bones from medieval town of Staraya Ladoga.

 

15:20 – 15:29 - NEEDS-HOWARTH S. and HAWKINS A. “Diagnostic bones” for Great Lakes taxa revisited: Lessons from deposits with (mostly) whole fish

 

15:30 – 15:39 - JIMÉNEZ-CANO N. Estimation of fish size from archaeological bones of marine catfishes (Ariopsis felis): assessing pre-Hispanic fisheries of two Mayan sites

 

15:40 – 15:49 - MOHLENHOFF K. El Niño and trans-Holocene trends in Eastern Pacific fish: a pilot study from Abrigo de los Escorpiones, Baja California)

 

15:50 – 16:19 coffee break

 

 

SESSION 10. Poster Session

S.10 (3) Fishing, fish consumption and integrated Archaeoichthyological analysis

Chair: TATIANA THEODOROPOULOU

 

16:20 – 16:29 - BLANCO A., AGUSTÍ J., BLAIN H.A., SALA R. and TORO I. Fish remains from the Early Pleistocene hominid site of Barranco León (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)

 

16:30 – 16:39 - ZIVALJEVIĆ I. and LOPIČIĆ M. Fishing the sensitive information: reconstructing fish processing practices from the Mesolithic-Neolithic Iron Gates (north-central Balkans)

 

16:40 – 16:49 - RITCHIE K. A Tale of Two Shell Deposits: aquatic resource use at the Copper Age site of Pietrele, Romania

 

16:50 – 16:59 - WILKENS B. Fish remains from the Middle Ages well in via Satta at Sassari (Sardinia, Italy)

 

17:00 – 17:09 - BAKKER J. On an ichthyo-archaeological method to trace Jewish urban households. A study of fish remains from Post-Medieval Amsterdam and Medieval Cologne

 

17:10 – 17:19 - ZABILSKA-KUNEK M. Fishing methods used in the past from archaeological, archaeo-ichthyological and ethnographic perspective

 

17:20 – 17:29 - GRAÑA L. Tackling fishbones: an integrated approach to Roman fisheries

 

 

 

17:35 – 18:15 CLOSING REMARKS AND GENERAL DISCUSSION

LÁSLÓ BARTOSIEWICZ

 

 

 

PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS BOOK AVAILABLE HERE

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY 1, FRIDAY 2 AND SATURDAY 3

 

FIELD TRIP

 

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